Weekly Tasks - Term 1, Week 5

Here are the tasks for this week - Term 1, Week 5.

Remember to do some Duolingo Spanish practice every day - try to maintain your streak! Make sure you go back and revise any lessons that are no longer gold. The repetition will help the words stick in your memory. Also, you might want to download the free Duolingo app on to your phone, iPod or tablet so it's more convenient.

Picnic Pics

Yesterday we held our annual school picnic at Bishop Park in Eastbourne. Here are a few pics.

Tech at Mt Cook

Every Monday afternoon all the Year 7 & 8 students go to Mt Cook School for Technology. They rotate through five classes - woodwork, sewing, cooking, movie-making and electronics, creating interesting projects in each class. The Year 8 programme builds on the skills learned in the Year 7 programme. Here are a few pics from the first week of Tech.

Weekly Tasks - Term 1, Week 4

Here is the task sheet for this week: Term 1, Week 4.

Fingers crossed for fine weather on Thursday for the picnic!

Writing 
More info on the writing task - start with one of these sentences

1.  The lights suddenly flickered and died.

2.  The new kid stood nervously by his/her desk...

OR

3. Use an idea of your own.

Remember to include:
- intro, problem, resolution
- dialogue
- a character description followed by a short, punchy sentence

Reading
Here are the details of the follow-up task to do after your Marie Curie part 2 lesson.

1. Key facts - make a bullet point list of the 5 most important pieces of information
2. Health effects - list 4 of the negative health effects of working with radioactive materials.
3. Vocab - choose 4 unfamiliar or interesting words and write their definitions

Swimming

We started swimming at Keith Spry Pool in Johnsonville today and will continue until the end of the term. Students that can already swim will rotate through snorkelling, diving, kayaking and water safety lessons.

Weekly Tasks - Term 1, Week 3

Here is today's task sheet: Term 1, Week 3.

Once you've done the Marie Curie reading lesson, the follow-up task is:

1. Identify the 5 most important points of the article so far - in bullet points.

2. Identify 4 similarities between Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford - again in bullet points.

Do this in your English book.

PE and Fitness

This week we've been doing lots of different fitness activities to get everyone moving. We have sports or fitness activities every day except Mondays because of spending half the day at Tech.

Next week, our new Classroom Fitness Leaders will take over the organising of activities on Tuesday and Thursday. On Wednesday we have swimming and on Friday we have a game (almost always dodgeball) in the afternoon.

Weekly Tasks - Term 1, Week 2

Here are the tasks for Term 1, Week 2.

Reading Challenges - Term 1

Here are the reading challenges for this term.

Books can count in more than one challenge. They are all optional except for the 10 Book Challenge.

10 Book Challenge: Read 10 books in one term.

20 Book Challenge:  Read 20 books in one term.

Ye Olde Booke Challenge:  Read a book written before 1980.

YA Challenge Read 2 books from the Young Adult section of the school library.

Series Challenge: Read 3 books in the same series.

Colour Challenge: Read a book with a colour in the title.

Non-human Challenge: Read a book with non-human characters.

Friend Challenge: Read 2 books recommended by friends.

If you have ideas for good books that would fit into the challenges (especially if they fit in more than one category) post them in the comments. E.g. The Silver Sword fits in the Colour Challenge and the Ye Olde Booke Challenge. 

First day back!

We had a busy day yesterday on our first day back. We were impressed by how motivated, thoughtful and helpful all the students were. Here are some pics of a group activity that we did across all three classes.

Weekly Tasks - Term 1, Week 1

Here is the first task sheet of the year: Term 1, Week 1.  We only have 3 days, so you'll have to work fast!

Make sure you talk to your teacher if you are having any problems.

Note: the link to the survey website doesn't seem to work if you click on it, but does work if you copy and paste it into the address bar, so do that instead. Weird.


Responsibility Letters

When you write your responsibility letters - address them to the following people:

Catholic Character Team - Mrs Miranda (Year 8s only)
Librarian - Penny
First Aid Monitor - Mrs Taylor
Milk monitor - Ms R Bolger
Sports monitor - Miss Higgins
Classroom Fitness Leader - Mr McGurk
Tech Support - Miss F Bolger
Enviro Team - Mrs Barnett (normal enviro stuff)
Schoolgen Team - Mrs Barnett (doing solar power stuff)

The letters are due next Tuesday - just give them to your classroom teacher.

Welcome to 2016!

Welcome everyone to the Kauri Syndicate for 2016. This year we have three Year 7/8 classes - Room 10 taught by Ms R Bolger, Room 11 taught by Mr McGurk and Room 12 taught by Miss F Bolger.

Our weekly task sheets will be posted here each Monday, as well as photos and extra information.